what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

[j4k3]

i have a very old radeon 9600xt with 256mb and i'm thinking of upgrading it. i can't use those newer graphics card that uses it's own power supply. anything that's not too old and can run BF2 fairly well (meaning good FPS) and below $150 would be awesome!

specs:

amd athlon xp 2200+ (1.8ghz)
1024mb ram
ati radeon 9600xt 256mb

with the 5.10 and 5.11 catalyst drivers, my FPS is about 20-30 everytime (below 20 FPS 40% of the time). but, ever since i went back to using the old omega 5.9 drivers, my FPS IMPROVED significantly! it now hovers in the high 30s to low 40s. so, the new catalyst drivers hates me. :/

also, i'm gonna add another 512mb of ram because my mobo can only handle 1.5gb of ram. :/ i don't think i'm gonna upgrade my cpu/mobo (or anything else for that matter) anytime soon because most of my money will go to school next sem.

thanks!

(mods, i know i posted this in the wrong forum but the support forum doesn't get much views.)

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130220

[stilla-killa]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

i upgraded to a ati x800 pro and loving ever minute of it.

[amish marauder]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

poor? 9800 pro, 6600

other wise: 6800, 6800GT

if you have money to spend then get the best you can. 7800 is a fine card.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

poor? 9800 pro, 6600

other wise: 6800, 6800GT

if you have money to spend then get the best you can. 7800 is a fine card.

7800 does not come in AGP. He said he didn't want a new MOBO, also said $150 max....

[imported_Champion]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

I have a 9600XT.. i can play on medium without a single FPS spike..

[Versus3k]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

I upgraded from a 9600PRO to a 6800GT and BF2 now plays nice and smooth. Did cost £200 though, so might be a little over your budget. I'd say a 6600GT is probably pretty good and affordable...

[amish marauder]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

7800 does not come in AGP. He said he didn't want a new MOBO, also said $150 max....

sorry, serves me right for not reading his thread, I went off the title.


in that case....9800pro or higher.

what CPU do u have? Ram?? all this things make a difference.


example:

I run a AMD 2500+ @ 2.0GHz
1.75GB PC2700
Radeon 9800Pro

I play the game with 4x FSAA, and 8X AF
1024x768 32 bit.

all in game settings on HIGH
view distance at max,
texture settings at high, shadows maxed out, etc etc...

runs perfectly smooth on 64 man servers.

course when I only had 768mb of ram it ran for **** online. RAM made the biggest difference.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

sorry, serves me right for not reading his thread, I went off the title.


in that case....9800pro or higher.

what CPU do u have? Ram?? all this things make a difference.

You still havn't read the first post have you?

[amish marauder]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

9800 pro...for the min you should be looking at. with a 2GHz CPU, and 2 GB of ram

[big_sammy_b]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

you had better be quick becuase decent AGP graphics cards are becomeing vey difficult to find.

the 6800GT AGP has now been replaced by the pci-e only 7800GT and even the 6600GT seems to have started to be pci-e only.

[Krypp596]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

X850XT...a greate gard!

[Philihase]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

9800 pro anything higher and you´ll bottleneck it with the c.p.u.

[F-1]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

GeForce 6600GT 256MB AGP

or

RADEON X700 256MB AGP

it depens on if you are fanATIc or NVIDIOT

[Krypp596]

Re: what's a good upgrade for my radeon 9600xt?

it depens on if you are fanATIc or NVIDIOT

HAHA LOL...!!!
Good one